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SUMMARY:Strata and Three Stories: Toward a Multidisciplinary Anthropocene 
 - Julia Adeney Thomas\, Department of History Notre Dame University
DTSTART:20191126T173000Z
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CONTACT:Paul Warde
DESCRIPTION:There are lots of ways that Earth System science and humanisti
 c disciplines might come together to tell stories of the Anthropocene.  He
 re I discuss three approaches.  The first might be called "anything goes."
  While this pullulating richness of definitions and terminology is dazzlin
 g\, I'll argue that it isn't helpful.  If we're to construct meaningful co
 nversations among the disciplines\, we need to respect different forms of 
 expertise (while reflecting on the purview and limits of our own). Two oth
 er kinds of stories among disciplines are possible: one interdisciplinary 
 and the other multidisciplinary.  The interdisciplinary approach combines 
 rocks and people\, strata and stories into a single coherent narrative.  W
 hile compelling\, there are problems with this approach because a single s
 tory can never capture all the many "anthropos" of the Anthropocene and th
 e way different forms of endangerment in the Anthropocene.  Furthermore it
  hints that mitigation efforts are best pursued under the auspices of a si
 ngle collective\, global authority.  The third\, multidisciplinary approac
 h allows for many stories about the same phenomenon.  In other words\, eve
 ryone responds to the same reality but asks distinctive and qualitatively 
 different questions about it. Reality\, even the enormous and encompassing
  reality of the Anthropocene\, does not dictate one comprehensive human st
 ory--either looking back or looking forward--and that provides more avenue
 s toward hope. 
LOCATION:Nihon Room\, Pembroke College
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